unawares

Example Sentences

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As the plane door opened, the couple were caught unawares.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025

He "sent it" around the outside with full commitment, and caught Piastri - an instinctive and clinical racer himself, normally - unawares.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

All of those clips are mesmerizing and alluring and haunting, as if we’re actually looking at invisible spirits or fairies captured unawares.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Because forecasters were caught unawares, so were local residents, who only expected perhaps a Category 2 storm.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023

“You took me unawares, my lord. I was not told of your coming.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin